The Google Earth Community and Google's Keyhole mapping service, Bulletin Board Service http://bbs.keyhole.com: data layers, supplementary readings,supporting photos and videos and a collaborative discussion forum
Web 2.0
Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher An Internet Hotlist on Web 2.0
This website is an easy way for students to make comics. They can change the scenes, add speech bubbles, and change characters. It would be a good way to get students who aren't usually interested in writing involved.
Sheppard software has a lot of great game for K-5. I use this website frequently during math but there are also language arts, social studies, and science games. I also send home games from this website on my newsletter and encourage students to play them independently on the weeknights/weekends.
This would be a great website to use during a listening center. The books are a little lengthy for K-2 to use during a listening center, but could be used in a whole group instruction. It has a lot of popular books such as "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".
This website could be used to teach could hygiene to students. My students are always sneezing and blowing their noses! This could be used as a fun way to reinforce the hygiene rules we discuss in class.
With brainnook kids can create a choose a name for their alien. They then play different numbers and language arts games collecting badges to "buy" things (clothes, accessories, etc.).
Capzels is a free website that allows students to create a "time capsule." They can narrate or add music to their project, import pictures they have taken or from the internet. This site is a great way to integrate technology because students can work on it collaboratively, and it is a good alternative way to present information. You could use this tool at the end of a unit to have the students summarize their knowledge of the content, or have students focus on and explain one aspect of the unit to extend their learning.
Edmodo is a class management and social networking site for teachers and students. Teachers can post daily assignments, quizzes, notes, have students respond to polls, create a calendar and more for their classes. Students and parents can send the teacher or the class as a whole notes to ask questions or post answers for a quick formative assessment. Teachers can archive their posts and assessments to use from year to year. The students can only communicate with the teacher or the entire group, they cannot send private individual messages. This site also lets parents set up an account in order to see their all of their child's groups at one time.
English-Zone provides practice activities for students. This site has free activities, as well as those teachers register for. It is a quick way to have students practice the concepts they are learning in class. Teachers can post links to the activities they want their students to complete.
Tagxedo is a free website where students and teacher can create word clouds to demonstrate their knowledge on a subject. This site provides a way for students to take the main ideas from a unit of study and create a visual representation of the information. Teachers could also have students use this as a presentation tool.
Discovery Education is a site that teachers normally have to register for, however this link provides free puzzle makers to all teachers. You can create cross word puzzles, word searches, mazes, math squares, etc. with this site. If you like the site then you have the option to buy the full CD-ROM, however you can make as many puzzles as you want with this site. These puzzles provide numerous ways to reivew concepts.
This site is a very neat way to work with students in a variety of ways using games and engaging activities. It is a more modern site that uses flash, so it does require a plug-in, but overall it seems easy to use and has a plethora of activities already created for various subjects on all levels. It has an image map activity, riddles, fill-in-the-blank, crosswords, dictation, dialogue, jumbled words, jumbled sentences, matching, and word searches. The site also offers collections on a specific subject, so you could group several activities in one place that were made for the same unit/topic. It makes quizzes, too! Definitely worth checking out. It is free- all you have to do is register.
This is AWESOME! These are fake Facebook pages that are developed by teachers and students for historical figures, characters, plays, etc. You can create their friends list, make comments as their friends and from them, edit their profile info, etc. It seems to be mostly historical and literary based, but I can see how science teachers and math teachers could teach relationships between different things using this particular tool.
__WebKlipper__
This site lets you easily, without requiring registration, annotate any webpage with virtual post-it notes or a highlighter. You’re then given the url address of the annotated webpage. It’s quite easy to use. Students can use it to demonstrate reading strategies (visualizing, asking questions, making a connection, etc.).
This site allows students to make their own comic strips- or storyboard digitally- which I have found to be a very helpful tool for comprehension. The site offers multiple backgrounds and characters to use- and requires no registration or additional information. Very cool tool :)
This site allows teachers to hold "chat-rooms" within a private setting for free! The teacher can set the expiration date for the chat room, invite members by url, and hashtag to twitter. It is super easy to use, requires no registration, and you have full control over the content. It is a cool tool to use during movies, podcasts, or other visual/auditory content to let students ask questions and have discussion about the content without being disruptive.
The Wolframaplha website is a search engine that also computes. It is an extremely useful one stop site for all content areas, not just math. For example, when searching for Denmark, the location of the novel Number the Stars I could find virtually every fact about Denmark I wanted to find, all in one quick search.
This website hosts Rubistar, a free rubric maker. I often use Rubistar to create quick and effective writing rubrics. While exploring Rubistar I realized it was sponsored by the larger site 4teachers.org. This site hosts several other teacher time savers. Besides rubrics, it also makes available a note taking tool: http://notestar.4teachers.org/. This site allows students to track sources they are using for research papers and lets teachers log on and collaborate along with students. This tool would allow teachers to see if the sites their students are using are valid and reliable and would teach good research skills.
http://www.educationworld.com/
This website is an amazing tool for free printables, lesson plans, and lesson ideas. I like to use the Every Day Edit, which will give a short paragraph with grammar errors for every day of the month. There are also good vocabulary handouts and writing prompts. There are free resources for every content area.
This website is a dictionary, but with a twist. It has video & word definitions. It would be especially helpful when trying to show students examples of how words are used and what they mean. Since new words can be abstract, this site would provide visual examples to see what a word means/is defined as. The only downside, not every word you want can be found here, but most common words for lower level students/elementary grades would be here.
This website allows the user to create cartoons. I love letting students use cartoons to explain concepts and vocabulary. What makes this website different than other cartoon making programs is the variety of options and professional looking presentation options. The final products really look like published cartoons .
This website is useful for showing students websites. It lets you paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and get a link that opens directly to the website and highlights the selection you pasted. It would be extremely useful for demonstration purposes of when directing students to explore complicated websites with many links. I could see using it to share websites on a wiki or blog and this way my students would know what they are supposed to be looking at.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/zone.htm
This website allows you to become a graphic artist, but also provides information that correllates with my curriculum such as the processes and elements.
Discovery Education PuzzleMaker: http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/
This site is more than your typical crossword puzzle generator. It creates many different types of puzzles for words and for numbers. Even if you aren't a vocabulary or math teacher, you could generate puzzles for general brain exercise for students to do when finished with their work.
One Word: http://oneword.com/
When you click this link, you will be presented with one word and a 60 second countdown. You will be prompted to write anything...anything...that comes to mind about your assigned word. This would be great as a visit to the computer lab during writing class. Students may be interested to hear what each other's words were and what they managed to write about. Plus, they have the opportunity to publish their entries on the site!
Wonderopolis: http://wonderopolis.org/
While the resources on this site are mainly geared toward middle school students, this one may seem a little young. However, I love to use this site as a springboard for entries in our Writer's Notebooks. For example, pull up the "wonder" about what a jellyfish is, show them the video, and then ask them to give their own creative opinions on what a jellyfish might be made of.
Online Etymology Dictionary: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php
When introducing new vocabulary words, it never fails that my students will hone in on one word, wanting to know where it came from, how long it's been around, etc. This site does a great job of answering those questions. Pull it up during your lesson and do some exploring with your students!
Free Rice: http://freerice.com/category
When this site first appeared on the internet, the only quiz category was vocabulary. Since then, it has expanded into every subject area, offering categories such as The Periodic Table, Countries, and Multiplication Tables. While it is a basic drill and practice site, it is also run by the United Nations, who donates rice to third world countries with every click of the mouse.
Anne Frank House Tour: http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/
If you teach Anne Frank's diary, this is a site that you must visit with your class. It is a virtual tour of The Secret Annex, with extra bits of information literally everywhere for you and your students to discover!
Scale of the Universe: http://scaleofuniverse.com/
While I haven't taught a Science class in years, this is a site I would love to use if I did. When you click on the link, you will be taken to a human figure. Scroll out, and you will be taken through everything from humans to outside of our little spot in the universe. Scroll in and you will be taken through every organism/item/cell all the way to the smallest object known to man.
ClassTools.net is a site that allows teachers to create content specific games. Toondoospaces is a site that allows students and teachers to create cartoons and archive them. Storyjumper is a site that gives students a chance to create their own children's book and then have the opportunity to order a hard copy. Zunal is a site that teachers can use to create webquests the site has content specific shortcuts.
Classdojo.com is a classroom management resource. It allows you to keep track of positive and negative behaviors in Real Time using the smart board as well as your smart phone. Behavior reports can be pdf-ed and emailed out to parents.
Annsley Frazier Thornton School of Education
Standards
Core Content
LiveText
Photo Editing Software
Gimp
PhotoScape
Web 2.0
Flickr
SlideShare
Poll Everywhere
Firefox
Edublogs
Audacity
Link to Purchase Microsoft Office
Open Office
The Physics of Angry Birds
U.S. Department of Education: Ed-Tech Statistics
PBS Early Childhood Tech Tools for Learning
Interactive Whiteboard Games (PBS)
Cell Phone Study: Learning Letters with Elmo
PBS Mobile Apps for Learning
What it means to always be on the cell phone (be sure to listen to the podcast)
Apple Stock vs. Product
The Physics of Superheros
How to send text message from email on your computer
SMART Board Resources for Teachers
http://www.actiondonation.org/articles/smart-board-resources.html
SmartBoards in the Classroom Blog
http://blogs.region4.nycenet.edu/communities/smartboard/archive/category/1602.aspx
Activites
Wack-a-Mole
Morning Calendar
Attendance Balloons
Jeopardy
Kooshball
Brain Savvy Game
Classroom Feud
Dr. Jean's Songs
Connect 4
Random Turn Generator
TeacherTube SmartBoard Tutorials
Mrs. Weldon's Blog: Teacher Tools for SmartBoard
Technology Integration: SmartBoard
Cool Tools: Smart Notebook 10 Teacher Guide
Smart Exchange
Google Earth and the Smartboard
Smart Notebook Lessons
Search Teacher Tube
//Download Notebook software for you computer//
Educational Websites
Scale City
Revolutionary War
Belle of Louisville
KET
Starfall: http://www.starfall.com/
http://www.uen.org/k-2interactives/
http://www.globalclassroom.org/ecell00/javamath.html
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/investigate/weather_maker.htm
Virtual Manipulatives and Other Interactive Websites
Web 2.0
http://www.solutionwatch.com/512/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-1/
http://www.solutionwatch.com/515/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-2/
http://www.solutionwatch.com/519/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-3/
http://www.uen.org/k-2interactives/
Virtual Manipulatives
Math
eNLVM http://enlvm.usu.edu/
Interactivate http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/
Learning Mathematics with Virtual Manipulatives http://www.cited.org/index.aspx?page_id=151
Manipula Math with JAVA http://www.ies.co.jp/math/java/index.html
MathTools http://www.mathforum.org/mathtools/
Pythagoras’ Theorem http://www.dynamicgeometry.com/JavaSketchpad/Gallery.html
The Geometry Applet http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/Geometry/Geometry.html
Science
Owl Pellet http://www.kidwings.com/owlpellets/flash/v4/index.htm
K-2 Interactive http://www.uen.org/k-2interactives/
Elementary http://www.wonderville.ca/
Elementary Science http://www.uen.org/3-6interactives/science.shtml
Google Earth
Crossing Boundaries http://crossingboundariesproject.org/: biodiversity conservation
Discovery Education http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth_discovery.html creates online lessons and digital videos to supplement Google Earth.
Google "Maps Mania" blog http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
Google Earth & GPS Elementary Classroom Activities http://www.amazon.com/Google-Earth-Elementary-Classroom-Activities/dp/1589128761
Google Earth and Discovery Education Unitedstreaming http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth_discovery.html
Google Earth and Discovery Education Unitedstreaming http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth_discovery.html
Google Earth Blog http://www.gearthblog.com/reference.html
Google Earth Current Events http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlcat11/Current-Events.htm
Google Earth for Educators http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html: online interactive tools, curriculum resources, and lesson plans for teachers
Google Earth Image Overlays http://earth.google.com/support/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=22373&topic=22376
Google Earth in the Elementary Classroom http://cnx.org/content/m19821/latest/
Google Earth Lessons http://gelessons.com/lessons/
Google Earth Lessons and Related Materials http://delicious.com/library_chic/googleearth
Google Earth Ruler http://earth.google.com/support/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=22365&topic=23730&answer=148134
Projects such as Journey North http://www.learner.org/: data provided by participants to generate observation maps
Real World Math: Using Google Earth in the Math Curriculum http://www.realworldmath.org/Real_World_Math/RealWorldMath.org.html
Real World Math: Using Google Earth in the Math Curriculum http://www.realworldmath.org/Real_World_Math/RealWorldMath.org.html
Screen Protractor http://www.iconico.conVprotractor
Sea Turtle Project http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/ explorer/: post data from tagged wildlife.
The Atlas of Our Changing Environment http://na.unep.net/digital%5fatlas2/ google.php: satellite images for the science classroom.
The Cousteau Society http://www.cousteau.org/expedition: images and video clips for use with Google Earth
The Google Earth Community and Google's Keyhole mapping service, Bulletin Board Service http://bbs.keyhole.com: data layers, supplementary readings,supporting photos and videos and a collaborative discussion forum
Web 2.0
Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher An Internet Hotlist on Web 2.0
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listweb20s.html
Web 2.0 for Teachers
http://www.protopage.com/web2point0forteachers#Web_2.0_For_Teachers/Subject_Specific
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2011/07/14/the-best-web-2-0-applications-for-education-in-2011-so-far/
Tablet Talk
http://tablettalk.info/
Ask a Tech Teacher
http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/41-websites-for-teachers-to-integrate-tech-into-your-classroom/
Bonus
Educational Blogs
http://pinterest.com/mrsdi/education-blogs/
Educational Wikis
http://blog.wikispaces.com/2012/01/best-educational-wikis-of-2011.html
Web 2.0 Websites
http://www.wittycomics.com/
This website is an easy way for students to make comics. They can change the scenes, add speech bubbles, and change characters. It would be a good way to get students who aren't usually interested in writing involved.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/
Sheppard software has a lot of great game for K-5. I use this website frequently during math but there are also language arts, social studies, and science games. I also send home games from this website on my newsletter and encourage students to play them independently on the weeknights/weekends.
http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/
This would be a great website to use during a listening center. The books are a little lengthy for K-2 to use during a listening center, but could be used in a whole group instruction. It has a lot of popular books such as "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".
http://www.scrubclub.org/home.aspx
This website could be used to teach could hygiene to students. My students are always sneezing and blowing their noses! This could be used as a fun way to reinforce the hygiene rules we discuss in class.
http://brainnook.com/
With brainnook kids can create a choose a name for their alien. They then play different numbers and language arts games collecting badges to "buy" things (clothes, accessories, etc.).
Free Teacher Resources
http://www.capzles.com/Capzels is a free website that allows students to create a "time capsule." They can narrate or add music to their project, import pictures they have taken or from the internet. This site is a great way to integrate technology because students can work on it collaboratively, and it is a good alternative way to present information. You could use this tool at the end of a unit to have the students summarize their knowledge of the content, or have students focus on and explain one aspect of the unit to extend their learning.
http://www.edmodo.com/
Edmodo is a class management and social networking site for teachers and students. Teachers can post daily assignments, quizzes, notes, have students respond to polls, create a calendar and more for their classes. Students and parents can send the teacher or the class as a whole notes to ask questions or post answers for a quick formative assessment. Teachers can archive their posts and assessments to use from year to year. The students can only communicate with the teacher or the entire group, they cannot send private individual messages. This site also lets parents set up an account in order to see their all of their child's groups at one time.
http://english-zone.com/index.php
English-Zone provides practice activities for students. This site has free activities, as well as those teachers register for. It is a quick way to have students practice the concepts they are learning in class. Teachers can post links to the activities they want their students to complete.
http://www.tagxedo.com/
Tagxedo is a free website where students and teacher can create word clouds to demonstrate their knowledge on a subject. This site provides a way for students to take the main ideas from a unit of study and create a visual representation of the information. Teachers could also have students use this as a presentation tool.
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/?CFID=11576612&CFTOKEN=66733749
Discovery Education is a site that teachers normally have to register for, however this link provides free puzzle makers to all teachers. You can create cross word puzzles, word searches, mazes, math squares, etc. with this site. If you like the site then you have the option to buy the full CD-ROM, however you can make as many puzzles as you want with this site. These puzzles provide numerous ways to reivew concepts.
Educaplay
This site is a very neat way to work with students in a variety of ways using games and engaging activities. It is a more modern site that uses flash, so it does require a plug-in, but overall it seems easy to use and has a plethora of activities already created for various subjects on all levels. It has an image map activity, riddles, fill-in-the-blank, crosswords, dictation, dialogue, jumbled words, jumbled sentences, matching, and word searches. The site also offers collections on a specific subject, so you could group several activities in one place that were made for the same unit/topic. It makes quizzes, too! Definitely worth checking out. It is free- all you have to do is register.
Fakebook
This is AWESOME! These are fake Facebook pages that are developed by teachers and students for historical figures, characters, plays, etc. You can create their friends list, make comments as their friends and from them, edit their profile info, etc. It seems to be mostly historical and literary based, but I can see how science teachers and math teachers could teach relationships between different things using this particular tool.
__WebKlipper__
This site lets you easily, without requiring registration, annotate any webpage with virtual post-it notes or a highlighter. You’re then given the url address of the annotated webpage. It’s quite easy to use. Students can use it to demonstrate reading strategies (visualizing, asking questions, making a connection, etc.).
Comic Strip
This site allows students to make their own comic strips- or storyboard digitally- which I have found to be a very helpful tool for comprehension. The site offers multiple backgrounds and characters to use- and requires no registration or additional information. Very cool tool :)
TodaysMeet
This site allows teachers to hold "chat-rooms" within a private setting for free! The teacher can set the expiration date for the chat room, invite members by url, and hashtag to twitter. It is super easy to use, requires no registration, and you have full control over the content. It is a cool tool to use during movies, podcasts, or other visual/auditory content to let students ask questions and have discussion about the content without being disruptive.
FREE stuff that's really neat!
http://www.wolframalpha.com/The Wolframaplha website is a search engine that also computes. It is an extremely useful one stop site for all content areas, not just math. For example, when searching for Denmark, the location of the novel Number the Stars I could find virtually every fact about Denmark I wanted to find, all in one quick search.
http://4teachers.org/tools/
This website hosts Rubistar, a free rubric maker. I often use Rubistar to create quick and effective writing rubrics. While exploring Rubistar I realized it was sponsored by the larger site 4teachers.org. This site hosts several other teacher time savers. Besides rubrics, it also makes available a note taking tool: http://notestar.4teachers.org/. This site allows students to track sources they are using for research papers and lets teachers log on and collaborate along with students. This tool would allow teachers to see if the sites their students are using are valid and reliable and would teach good research skills.
http://www.educationworld.com/
This website is an amazing tool for free printables, lesson plans, and lesson ideas. I like to use the Every Day Edit, which will give a short paragraph with grammar errors for every day of the month. There are also good vocabulary handouts and writing prompts. There are free resources for every content area.
http://www.wordia.com/
This website is a dictionary, but with a twist. It has video & word definitions. It would be especially helpful when trying to show students examples of how words are used and what they mean. Since new words can be abstract, this site would provide visual examples to see what a word means/is defined as. The only downside, not every word you want can be found here, but most common words for lower level students/elementary grades would be here.
http://www.toondoo.com/
This website allows the user to create cartoons. I love letting students use cartoons to explain concepts and vocabulary. What makes this website different than other cartoon making programs is the variety of options and professional looking presentation options. The final products really look like published cartoons .
http://www.citebite.com/
This website is useful for showing students websites. It lets you paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and get a link that opens directly to the website and highlights the selection you pasted. It would be extremely useful for demonstration purposes of when directing students to explore complicated websites with many links. I could see using it to share websites on a wiki or blog and this way my students would know what they are supposed to be looking at.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/zone.htm
This website allows you to become a graphic artist, but also provides information that correllates with my curriculum such as the processes and elements.
Discovery Education PuzzleMaker: http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/
This site is more than your typical crossword puzzle generator. It creates many different types of puzzles for words and for numbers. Even if you aren't a vocabulary or math teacher, you could generate puzzles for general brain exercise for students to do when finished with their work.
One Word: http://oneword.com/
When you click this link, you will be presented with one word and a 60 second countdown. You will be prompted to write anything...anything...that comes to mind about your assigned word. This would be great as a visit to the computer lab during writing class. Students may be interested to hear what each other's words were and what they managed to write about. Plus, they have the opportunity to publish their entries on the site!
Wonderopolis: http://wonderopolis.org/
While the resources on this site are mainly geared toward middle school students, this one may seem a little young. However, I love to use this site as a springboard for entries in our Writer's Notebooks. For example, pull up the "wonder" about what a jellyfish is, show them the video, and then ask them to give their own creative opinions on what a jellyfish might be made of.
Online Etymology Dictionary: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php
When introducing new vocabulary words, it never fails that my students will hone in on one word, wanting to know where it came from, how long it's been around, etc. This site does a great job of answering those questions. Pull it up during your lesson and do some exploring with your students!
Free Rice: http://freerice.com/category
When this site first appeared on the internet, the only quiz category was vocabulary. Since then, it has expanded into every subject area, offering categories such as The Periodic Table, Countries, and Multiplication Tables. While it is a basic drill and practice site, it is also run by the United Nations, who donates rice to third world countries with every click of the mouse.
Anne Frank House Tour: http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/
If you teach Anne Frank's diary, this is a site that you must visit with your class. It is a virtual tour of The Secret Annex, with extra bits of information literally everywhere for you and your students to discover!
Scale of the Universe: http://scaleofuniverse.com/
While I haven't taught a Science class in years, this is a site I would love to use if I did. When you click on the link, you will be taken to a human figure. Scroll out, and you will be taken through everything from humans to outside of our little spot in the universe. Scroll in and you will be taken through every organism/item/cell all the way to the smallest object known to man.
ClassTools.net is a site that allows teachers to create content specific games.
Toondoospaces is a site that allows students and teachers to create cartoons and archive them.
Storyjumper is a site that gives students a chance to create their own children's book and then have the opportunity to order a hard copy.
Zunal is a site that teachers can use to create webquests the site has content specific shortcuts.
Classdojo.com is a classroom management resource. It allows you to keep track of positive and negative behaviors in Real Time using the smart board as well as your smart phone. Behavior reports can be pdf-ed and emailed out to parents.
Voki
http://www.voki.com/
Examples: http://highlandtechnologyclass.wikispaces.com/Voki+-+Monologues
QR Generators
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
Example:
QR Codes in the Classroom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocn-LT4r4_o&feature=related
Stimulating Oral Storytelling (Elementary) With QR Codes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9SwTiNx_Ps&feature=related
Google Earth in the Classroom
http://sitescontent.google.com/google-earth-for-educators/
Example:
http://realworldmath.org/Real_World_Math/RealWorldMath.org.html
Common Craft
http://www.commoncraft.com/#all-videos
Examples: Plagiarism in Plain English
PowerPoint Museum Template
http://christykeeler.com/EducationalVirtualMuseums.html
Examples:
The Iroquois by Ryan Keeler, 5th grade student
Voki is an application that allows users to create
animated avatars and then to create audio to accompany
speaking avatars (see the examples)
QR Codes are not for ALL students because not all students
have a cell, but they are a great tool for not only teachers, but
for schools. Send home QR codes that have link to the school
calendar/website, fund raisers or weekly schedules.
Google Earth is probably one of my favorite apps because
Google is dedicated to making it work in education. They are constantly uploading instructional material. Furthermore, it has applications across the content areas.
Common Craft provides videos on all emerging technologies to give you a short, informative explanation of what the technology does. See Wikis in Plain English or Zombies in Plain English on YouTube.
PowerPoint Museum Template is a "cool" PPt template that...looks like a museum. Again, it is cross-curricular and student- or teacher-centered.